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Including over two hundred fifty poems by more than eighty authors, this anthology ranges widely from genial satire to nonsense verse, and from epigrams to limericks. Surveying a tradition of English verse from the late sixteenth century to the present, Kingsley Amis has chosen verse written by a wide selection of poets, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lewis Carroll, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hilaire Belloc, No???l Coward, Anthony Powell, W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, ...

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The New Oxford Book of Light Verse 1987, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780192820754

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